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Space Exploration: �a brief overview

Unit 6: Space Exploration

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Early Manned Space Programs

  • Mercury Program
    • 1958-1963
    • First US crewed program
  • Gemini Program
    • 1961-1966
    • Program used to practice space rendezvous and EVAs
  • Apollo Program
    • 1960-1972
    • Landed first humans on the Moon

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Space Shuttle Program

  • 1972-2011
  • First missions in which a spacecraft was reused

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International Space Station (ISS)

  • 1993-ongoing
  • Joint with Roscosmos, CSA, ESA, and JAXA
  • American flew on Russian Soyuz after 2011 retirement of the Space Shuttle,
  • SpaceX has been used since 2020

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International Space Station (ISS)

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Artemis Program

  • 2017-ongoing
  • Current program to bring humans back to the moon

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Planet Exploration

  • Mariner
    • 1962-1973
    • 10-mission program to investigate Mars, Venus, and Mercury
  • Cassini-Huygens
    • 1997-2017
    • Explored Saturn and its moons
  • Voyager
    • 1977-ongoing
    • Traveled to Jupiter and Saturn, then on to Uranus and Neptune, is currently in interstellar space
  • Mars Exploration Rovers
    • 2003-2010/2018
    • Spirit & Opportunity
    • Curiosity (2011)
    • Perseverance & Ingenuity Helicopter (2020)

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Space Exploration

  • Kepler
    • 2009-2018
    • Space telescope designed to survey a portion of the Milky Way for exoplanets

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  • Deep Impact
    • 2005-2014
    • First attempt to peer beneath the surface of a comet
  • Infrared Universe
    • 2003-2020
    • Spitzer Space Telescope was designed to study the early universe in infrared light
  • Ulysses
    • 1990-2008
    • Studied the north and south poles of the sun

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A Quick History of Space Exploration

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